> > Great work. Please go ahead and merge new tool to master. Kai I have pushed, hopefully I can get some feedback on building and running for the community :) Thanks again guys.
Exciting times :D On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Martell Malone <[email protected]> wrote: > The difference I see is that binutils is already a build dependency and >> is always the first step. It's already there so depending on it doesn't >> change anything. However this isn't the case for genlib. >> Is it possible to build genlib with only the header set installed? That >> would actually perfectly avoid my concerns. >> Also does it have any kind of dependency on a given version of >> mingw-w64? > > > genlib is multi-target an in general only needs to be built for the build > machine. > So if you were to use it you would build it with the same compiler you are > building your toolchain with. > It does not need to worry about the target because it supports all of them > with every build. > > The only scenario where bootstrapping this would be necessary would be for > a canadian cross compiler ? > It is not tied to a specific version of mingw-w64 so this should be > possible. > I have been dealing with clang and not gcc though so I haven't > specifically been to worried about this setup > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Adrien Nader <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015, Martell Malone wrote: >> > Just to clear things up here. >> > >> > I intend to include the source into the mingw-w64-tools folder so >> building >> > for any host should not be a problem. >> > >> > As for the option I just would like a configure option in the crt to >> force >> > using it instead of dlltool. >> > ./configure --use-genlib >> > It should not affect the current building in anyway and can be enabled >> by >> > choice. >> > >> > Does my explanation this make sense? >> >> That's how I had understood it. >> >> The difference I see is that binutils is already a build dependency and >> is always the first step. It's already there so depending on it doesn't >> change anything. However this isn't the case for genlib. >> >> Is it possible to build genlib with only the header set installed? That >> would actually perfectly avoid my concerns. >> Also does it have any kind of dependency on a given version of >> mingw-w64? >> >> -- >> Adrien Nader >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Mingw-w64-public mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public >> > >
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